Etymograph

English

mandrel

Mandrel comes from French mandrin.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentmandrin
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1920mandrel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentmandrin
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1920mandrel

Earliest quotation: 1920, Lester Gray French, Machinery: “This socket forms the starting point of the piercing…”

Every English word from French mandrin

Today it means

noun A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / French mandrin / mandrel

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